Godfrey of Bulloigne
Torquato Tasso · Edward Fairfax
Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata – the siege of Jerusalem in 1099, Rinaldo in the garden of Armida, the duel of Tancred and Clorinda, the poem behind Monteverdi’s Combattimento, Lully’s, Gluck’s and Haydn’s Armide and Handel’s Rinaldo – in the first complete English translation, by Edward Fairfax, London 1600, in Tasso’s eight-line stanza. Newly edited from the first edition with registers of names (with the musical settings) and old words. Edited by Bernhard Trebuch. Reading sample: Fairfax’s dedication to Queen Elizabeth, the First Book and the Sixteenth Book, Armida’s garden, with the registers.
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